By commiting to exceed the state local food procurement standards and, therefore, making more that 30 percent of food purchases from local (within 100 miles) by 2015, the University will support local farmers as well as saving energy associated with food transport.

The Student Sustainability Committee Open House

The Student Sustainability will be hosting an Open House event on Monday, February 8th at 6:00 PM (CT) via Zoom. We invite you and hope you can invite a friend to attend this exciting event. Students will discover more about the committee members, working groups, and be part of a general member. For now, join our SSC group chat, Discord! Scan the QR code and the event to this flyer. 

February 8, 6 pm • Zoom Event

Student Sustainability Committee • Student Engagement

The attached file is the updated pollinator pocket map for campus

Hello iCAPpers,

Here is the new help text for the Metric Topic (when editing a Metric) which we changed in today’s meeting:

Metric Topic should be a terse noun indicating the metric being measured <em>(CO2, Bicycles, etc.)</em>.

<br />It will be used as the title of the y-axis in the metric's graph. Please capitalize the first letter.

<br />If you start typing, autocomplete will try to find a matching term used by other metrics.  If no matches are found, your term will be added.

For posterity, here is the previous Metric Topic help text:

Metric Topic should be a terse noun indicating the metric being measured <em>(CO2, # bike paths, etc.)</em> as it would be used mid-sentence.

<br />If you start typing, autocomplete will try to find a matching term used by other metrics.  If no matches are found, your term will be added to the Metric Topics vocabulary.

<br />The following is a sample of how a Metric Topic could be used:

<br /><em>"Increase/Decrease/Maintain ________ by x% by 2015 from 2008 baseline.</em>

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On December 5, 2020, the SSC approved $30,000 in support of the Building Envelope Pilot Project Phase 1. This project is also funded by the Carbon Credit Sales Fund for an additional $30,000.  The key contact is Morgan White at F&S.

Attached are the notes from the February general meeting of the Campus Tree Advisory Committee. 

Topics discussed included a suscessful submission of our 2020 tree care plan, the trees on campus that are potental award winners for their size, and planning for this year's Arbor Day celebrations. 

On February 1, 2021, the Engagement SWATeam met to discuss updates on initiatives assigned at our last meeting. Topics of discussed include:

• Metrics on sustainability engagement
• ISG Gen-Ed initiative
• Sustainability Scholars Program
• Mandatory Sustainability Workshop
• Code of Conduct revisions

Meeting minutes are also attached below.

The following scope change was submitted to SSC for the Pollinator Awareness Sign:

Originally, there were no signs at all on campus showing how pollinator friendly the campus is. Now there are four; and the University is now considered part of Bee Campus USA. Now we want to add a bigger sign outlining the bee campus student organization, progress the campus has made, and changes the university implemented to be more pollinator friendly. This sign will include an acknowledgment of the SSC funding for the signs and for several of the pollinator friendly plantings around campus.

The funding does not need to be increased, but we are requesting a schedule extension of one year.  The design of the sign is anticipated to take at least one month, so that students can assist with the content development, then the sign will be ordered, and since it may be winter –time when the sign is ready for installation, we may not be able to install it until the spring thaw. Please approve an extension to May 2021.

Read the Scope Change in its entirety in the attached files below.

Please see attached the Fall 2021 Semester Report for the Building Envelope Project.